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Bubba, who lives up to his nickname by being under the best of circumstances the “widest” of receivers (in girth, that is), is finding himself in more trouble than usual. Having been indulging recently in calorie intake, he finds himself panting and puffing during morning workout exercises with the team. His blubber bounces so much in a series of jumping exercises, he drives himself like a pile driver into a hole in the field. Touch your toes? Forget it – Bubba’s lucky to even find them. The coach, as dim-witted as Alan Reed can usually portray him, can’t help but notice something’s not right. He orders Bubba on the scale for a weigh-in. “I wanna know your weight – to the nearest ton!” The team doctor at first thinks the scale reading looks good – until the coach notices Bubba has only one foot on the scale. When the other foot follows, Bubba plunges through the platform (as did Sergeant Snorkel last week), and the scale needle spins so wildly, it leaves the scale face and flies away like a propeller blade. The coach levels an ultimatum that Bubba slim down to playing weight by Sunday’s game, or gets traded to the Alaska Seals. Huddles attempts to stick up for Bubba, claiming they’re inseparable – if Bubba goes, he goes. The coach obliges by preparing to make the Seals a package deal of the pair of them.

Collector/ Historian Ira Gallen sent me a bunch of reels, and among these were a bunch of this pencil test and a demo reel from Don Oriolo Productions. A small scrap of paper was attached to one of the prints with the words ‘Pencil Test- Sturm/ Waldman. A complete spliced together 16mm print was labeled ‘Myron’ and another ‘Sturm’. I wonder if these were meant to be given back to these two animators.

What made this manga and then its second anime adaptation so great was its focus on characters, interweaving stories, and how it all came together in the end to tell a very deep and cohesive tale. Its characters like Edward and Alphonse Elric, Roy Mustang, Lust and more have stood out over the years and people continually go back to this series as an example of just how good manga and anime can be.

So there’s a friendly ghost and every now and then in one section of the house, the lights will go on and off so, I don’t know, there’s probably a friendly ghost around somewhere. Doesn’t bother me though. But after that knock on the headboard, I was truly convinced!

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Songs: “Kanine Krunchies Kommercial,” “Cruella De Vil,” “Dalmatian Plantation” by Mel Leven. Instrumentals: “Overture,” “A Beautiful Spring Day,” “What’s All the Hurry,” “A Perfect Situation,” “Stir Things Up,” “Don’t Worry, Perdy,” “The Puppies Are Here,” “Lucky How Marvelous,” “Not One,” “A Bloomin’ Hero,” “Ol’ Thunder Always Wins,” “Bedtime / An Evening Constitutional,” “A Job To Do,” “They’re Gone!” “Dognapped!” “Anita Darling,” “What’ll We Do? ” “All Dog Alert,” “Sergeant Tib’s Recon,” “Cat Casserole,” “Can You Leave Tonight?” “Arduous Trek,” “Any News, Colonel?” “I Want the Job Done Pulling a Snitch,” “Big Hullabaloo,” “Battling the Baduns,” “My Darlings,” “99,” “Better Be Off,” “Fire One,” “All Clear,” “Through the Snow,” “Shelter,” “I’m Hungry,” “Get Some Rest,” “Back on the Road,” “Spotted!” “Dinsford,” “Cruella,” “A Roll in the Soot,” “To the Van,” “It Can’t Be,” “Crazed,” “You Fools!” “Puppies Everywhere” by George Bruns.

Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet (11/22/29) – A village orchestra gets ready to rehearse, including a flautist who cuts off a piece of his flute and converts it to a piccolo, and a saxophonist having trouble with one of the holes on his instrument, which doesn’t want to stay in place. He somehow winds up playing a “Jew’s” harp. Recorded versions included the Haydn Quartet on Victor, Arthur Cliugh on Columbia (a high counter-tenor), Helen Clark and Joseph A. Phillips on Edison Diamond Disc, Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra on both Okeh and Brunswick, the Mills Brothers on Brunswick, the Dixie Ramblers on Bluebird (a Cajun string band performing for non-Cajun audiences), Milton Brown and his Brownies on Decca, Jimmie Lunceford on Decca, Ozzie Nelson (below) on Vocalion, the Sweet Violet Boys (aka the Prairie Ramblers) on Vocalion (with some parody lyrics about wearing a red bonnet in the vicinity of a bull), and much later, the Mulcays (harmonica duo) on MGM. Placemats

I’m hoping to be on the road Thursday as you read this for scanning trip #2. I have more cartoons ready to be scanned than I’ve ever tried to do at one time, and I fully expect to be scanning materials for two full days around the clock. When I finish writing this, I’ll be working on assembling the final reels and rewinding everything, and hope to get enough sleep to get on the road early. So many lovely prints of things have shown up recently, both lent and won on Ebay. These scans will help push many projects forward-and take tons of things of the ‘in progress’ list.